Industry Professional wrestling Area served Worldwide Founded 7 April 2014 | Genre Sports entertainment Founder Jeff Jarrett | |
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Founders Jeff Jarrett
Karen Jarrett Key people Jeff Jarrett
(co-founder/CEO)
Karen Jarrett
(co-founder)
Scott D'Amore
(VP – International Relations)
Hermie Sadler
(Member of Board of Directors) Website globalforcewrestling.com Headquarters Nashville, Tennessee, United States Owners Jeff Jarrett, Karen Jarrett Type Limited liability company, Privately held company | ||
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Global Force Wrestling (GFW) is an American professional wrestling promotion founded in 2014 by Jeff Jarrett, the co-founder and former President of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (now known as Impact Wrestling).
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Formation
With Jeff Jarrett out as minority investor of TNA Wrestling, he debuted the branding of Global Force Wrestling in April 2014. Since that time, he has been promoting the brand and establishing international partnerships with wrestling promotions across the world. The organization has a strategic partnership with 25/7 Productions and David Broome (creator of NBC's The Biggest Loser). Broome has stated that the organization plans to create new on-air content 52 weeks per year.
As of August 2014, GFW has announced working agreements with Mexican promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), Japan's New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion, multiple European promotions, South African promotion World Wrestling Professionals (WWP), and promotions from Australia and New Zealand. As part of GFW's relationship with New Japan Pro Wrestling, GFW "presented" NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom 9 at the Tokyo Dome on the American pay-per-view market on January 4, 2015, which featured commentary from Jim Ross and Matt Striker. The "Wrestle Kingdom 9" event reportedly drew 12,000 to 15,000 buys in North America.
The first Global Force Wrestling house show took place on June 12, 2015, at The Ballpark at Jackson in Jackson, Tennessee, as part of GFW's "Grand Slam Tour", which entailed holding events at minor league baseball stadiums. In that show's main event, Bullet Club members Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows defeated the New Heavenly Bodies.
The inaugural television tapings took place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first three events were taped on July 24, 2015, August 21, 2015, and October 23, 2015.
On May 6, 2015, Jarrett announced talent for their upcoming TV tapings, which include Bullet Club members Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows, the Killer Elite Squad, and Chael Sonnen as an expert analyst. On May 11, 2015, GFW announced the rest of their roster. The next day, GFW announced that four champions (Global, NEX*GEN, Tag Team and Women's Champion) would be crowned at the July 24 tapings in Las Vegas.
GFW Amped
On July 9, 2015, Jeff Jarrett announced that the name of the GFW's television program was "Amped". The inaugural television tapings took place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first three events occurred on July 24, 2015, August 21, 2015 and October 23, 2015. Throughout May 2015, GFW announced their roster for the first TV tapings.
In a December 2015 interview, Jeff Jarrett said that they had sixteen one-hour shows filmed at the Las Vegas tapings and that it hoped to have the shows air globally on television in the future. GFW announced that they had signed an international TV distribution deal with Boulder Creek TV in the UK on September 14, 2015, and with TVNZ Duke in New Zealand on February 18, 2016.
As of February 2017, none of the taped Amped shows has aired in any format anywhere internationally, with a majority of the talent who worked on the initial tapings having subsequently signed to work for WWE, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, or Ring of Honor.